FASHION INFLUENCE.
EFFECT ON TEXTILE INDUSTRY. AN EXPERT'S OBSERVATIONS. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, January 9. Sir Edwin Stockton, speaking at the Textile Institute, Bradford, upon fashions and trade, pointed out that if short skirts harmed the textile industry, the turning up of trouser bottoms had given hosiery manufacturers a chance by creating a demand for fancy socks. "You may say. how vain to want socks exposed, to buy fashion-made hosiery." The hosiery trade is busy as the result. At any rate, just as the vogue of short skirts resulted in a big demand for silk stockings s , dress designers are generally men, who decree changes in fashion in the hope of stimulating trade. The artificial silk industry, said Sir Edwin, had killed the rag and shoddy department of the wool trade, and if someone should evolve an artificial silk tie, which would stand twisting, another large new trade would be developed. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 77, 11 January 1928, Page 5
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